* Tickets (£20.12) for the star-studded post-Olympics Aviva Grand Prix at the Alexander Stadium on Sunday, August 26 are now on sale: 0800 0556056.

GET THE SUMMER BUZ

THERE’S never been a better way to see the city in a new light. On Saturdays and Sundays at 10.30am, 12.30pm and 2.30pm, hop on the Birmingham Buz where Colmore Row meets the Council House. The guided tour takes in the Jewellery Quarter, Broad Street, Edgbaston and Bullring. Tickets:£12 (£10) adults; £8 students, £5 children (five to 15 years), £20 family ticket (two adults and up to three children). Details: 0121 427 2555 or 078051 15998.

PHOTO RECORD

WEALTHY Birmingham industrialist, antiquarian and Member of Parliament for East Birmingham Sir Benjamin Stone (1838-1914) helped to pioneer using photography to record history and his collection includes 22,000 photographs, 17,000 glass negatives and more than 100 albums and scrapbooks will play An exhibition of his Olympic Games pictures will be on the new Library of Birmingham hoardings until September 9.

GARDEN FUN

BBC Learning has produced an outdoor summer show featuring popular CBeebies character Mr Bloom (Ben Faulks) showing children how to have fun in the garden. Mr Bloom’s Nursery: Get Set, Grow Tour will be in Sandwell Country Park, Salter’s Lane, West Bromwich (0121 553 0220)tomorrow and Sunday.

TABLE TENNIS

THE chance to play Ping Brum outdoors at various sites across Birmingham such as Victoria Square is ongoing until August 2. Details: www.pingbrum.co.uk

MUCHAMORE OF THIS

AFTER selling more than five million copies of his works to date, novelist Robert Muchamore will be at Waterstones, High Street, Birmingham from 3.30pm on Friday, August 3. He will be signing two new books that will only have been published the day before – his 14th and latest Cherub novel, The Guardian Angel (hardback £12.99) and his first graphic novel of his original Cherub spy mission book, The Recruit (paperback £12.99). Robert’s books attract six teenage boys for every four girls who read them – an unusual ratio in the teen book market.

THE BARD OUTDOORS

FESTIVAL Players Theatre Company present Twelfth Night from 7.30pm on Sunday, August 5 in the MAC’s Outdoor Arena, followed by Richard III from 7.30pm on Wednesday, August 8. Tickets for both plays are £14 / £11.

* From noon-6pm on Saturday, August 4, there’s a Future Poets Festival created and designed by 16 to 19-year-olds, with workshops, installations, screenings and open mic. Details: www.macarts.co.uk

HOLES IN ONE DAY

GOLFING lessons are in full swing for youngsters at The Belfry, Wishaw this month and next. Boys and girls, aged six to 14 can learn the essentials of a good all-round knowledge of the game with PGA qualified at the Sutton Coldfield site. The one and two-day schools during July and August, from 9am to 4pm, will include equipment hire, unlimited range balls, lunch and prizes for competition winners. The two-day courses (£55) will be held on Mondays/Tuesdays and

Wednesdays/Thursdays. The one day course (£30) is on Fridays. To reserve a place on the Junior Golf Academy, telephone 0300 500 0405 or download a booking form at www.thebelfry.co.uk/golf/junior_academy.php

FUN WITH BOOKS

SUMMER activities have been organised at many city libraries from Shard End to Aston, from Spring Hill to Birchfield and from Northfield to Boldmere, Sparkhill, Acocks Green and West Heath. Events at the Centre for the Child in Chamberlain Square include Bhangralympics: Get Set Go! tomorrow. There’s also a weekly Saturday Story Time from 2pm-2.45pm. Telephone Birmingham Central Library on 0121 303 2421 for details or visit www.birmingham.gov.uk

SWING AND PIANO

FRESH from thrilling audiences in the US and Europe, nine-piece band The Swing Commanders will be playing Bromsgrove Artrix from 7.30pm tonight (£13 / £12).

* Tomorrow, pianist Richard Batsford will recall Einaudi, Debussy and Glass when he makes his debut in The Studio at the Atrix from 7.30pm (tickets £7 / £5. Details from: 01527 083101 or www.artrix.co.uk